Rockwell 114 N4986S

Summary

On 9 August 2017 at about 17:00 local time, a Rockwell 114 registered N4986S was involved in an accident near Cairo, Illinois, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

9 August 2017 at 17:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Cairo, Illinois, United States

Nearest airport

Cairo Rgnl (CIR)

Coordinates

37.0642, -89.2194

Aircraft

Rockwell 114

Registration

N4986S

Category

Airplane

Year built

1976

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Marion → Cairo

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

GAA17CA483

Nobody was injured.

The pilot's failure to extend the landing gear before landing, which resulted in a gear-up landing and a runway overrun.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The airplane touched down during landing with the landing gear retracted and skidded to a stop in grass about 140 ft past the end of the runway threshold. The pilot reported during a telephone conversation with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator-in-charge that, "it was a simple gear-up landing, I forgot to put the [landing gear] switch down." He added that he was not wearing noise canceling headphones, and he reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The left wing sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported in the NTSB Pilot/Operator Aircraft Accident/Incident Report, "no accident, as specified by NTSB for gear up landing, is admitted."

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.